ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIAL NETWORKS OF CONTEMPORARY NARRATORS

In contemporaneity, the narrators of stories appropriate oral culture as well as the hypertextual language enhanced by new technologies, contributing to the strengthening of the communication of narrative information and to the sharing of experiences in the field of storytelling. When presenting sociograms of the networks of contemporary narrators from the State of Espirito Santo and the result of their main indicators (density and centrality) from the perspective of Social Network Analysis, theoretical and methodological aspects related to the mapping of drawings and targeted connections stand out for the practice of storytelling. The exploratory, descriptive and explanatory study assumes, as for the procedures, characteristics of a bibliographic research with the goal of supporting concepts such as Social Networks, Oral Narrative and Social Network Analysis. With the analysis, aspects related to the degree of centralization and centrality are represented and the management of communication structures is questioned, so that centralization is understood from the relationships of the graphs contributing to the representation of the networks. Connections take place in centralized, decentralized and distributed social networks, the latter being an ideal in terms of communication due to decentralizing and distributing knowledge production processes and sharing (in) training directed towards collaboration and cooperation in environments hybrids. It appears that these actors share narrative information in face-to-face and virtual spaces, strengthening ties of multiplex relationships, therefore needing to improve communication skills and connection techniques in digital networks so that they can act professionally in cyberspace.